Posted on 04/08/2021 4:45:49 PM PDT by PROCON
U.S. Marines drink the blood of a king cobra during jungle survival training as part of Cobra Gold 19. (Lance Cpl. Kenny Nunez/U.S. Marine Corps)
The organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called on supporters to protest outside the Pentagon on Thursday and hold large photos of U.S. Marines drinking snakes’ blood during survival training in an effort to pressure U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to discontinue the practice.
“Slurping snake blood and eating live animals during Cobra Gold is cruel and poses the risk of the transmission of a dangerous zoonotic disease potentially akin to COVID-19,” PETA Vice President Shalin Gala said in a Wednesday email obtained by American Military News. “PETA is pushing Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III to stop sullying Marines’ honor and risking public health with these gruesome bloodlust frat-like parties camouflaged as drills.”
For more than a year, PETA has been calling for the U.S. military to put an end to the Cobra Gold training exercise, an annual joint survival training exercise between the Royal Thai Marines and the U.S. Marine Corps. While the survival training covers a range of survival techniques, including make fires, find plants fit for consumption and how to find sources of hydration when water is not readily available, PETA has also criticized the survival training after Marines have been photographed eating live insects and drinking the blood of snakes.
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I am not sure why PETA should care ?
These are not Tasty Animals.
Since when does peta care if people, epecially military, get a disease from eating an animal? They are happy when that happens.
I see what you did there. 😁
I see the peta liberals getting into open warfare with the liberals that want all of us eating bugs.
Meanwhile Bill Gates is a savior for getting the world to give up cow and eat bugs with a chaser of snake’s blood.
That’s the first thing I thought. (This has to be the Babylon Bee.)
👍
To PETA:
Stop breathing.
Regards, USMC
The pussification of our militar continues in high gear.
I at first thought the Bee was the source.
There is a risk of zoonotic illness from eating any animal raw.
However, if you’ve been 9 days without real food, it won’t matter to you. You’ll eat it anyway.
I learned that in SERE school when I ate the eye of a jackrabbit.
Just something else to bitch about. Peta is not as animal loving as they pretend.
Insurrection?
*** I learned that in SERE school when I ate the eye of a jackrabbit. ***
My friend that went through SERE said he had to kill a rabbit, and eat it raw.
But you just KNOW the Bee will have to do something about this.
I went through JEST (Jungle Environment Survival Training), it was both challenging and fun at the same time. All these years late I still remember it like yesterday. It’s one of those things you have to personally experience to fully understand. It’s things like this that drive you to your local VFW and American Legion. It’s stuff like this that no civilian can ever relate to.
BTDT and Monkey on a stick in Thailand was good as heck. Granted I didn’t know until I at 75%!
PETA was at Sugarlands Ranger Station in the Great Smoky Mountains nat’l Park...They were protesting trout fishing...
They were chanting “Can’t you hear them screaming for their life???”
I stopped there on purpose with a trout in my creel...I took out the trout as I walked toward them...They were pointing at me and screaming....
I took a big bite out of the wriggling trout and said I didn’t hear it scream....
The PETA people started screaming and one girl threw up all over herself....
A Ranger I knew came out and saw it was me...he said “Oh...It’s you...” and turned and went back inside...
Ruined the little trout, but it was worth it to me...
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